GAVOT

gavot. Gavot, n. a brisk dance, alively air or tune

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Gav″ot (? or ?; 277), n. [[F. gavotte, fr. Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap.]] (Mus.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]